Fruity Pebble Baked Vanilla Donuts

These Fruity Pebble Baked Vanilla Donuts (aka, cereal milk donuts) are made with sweet cereal milk, baked in the oven, and dunked in a cereal milk glaze.

When topped with Fruity Pebbles, these yummy baked vanilla donuts make such a festive dessert or breakfast treat! Plus, these baked rainbow donuts are the perfect St. Patrick’s Day breakfast (or St. Patrick’s Day dessert)!

All right, so, I was at the grocery store the other day stocking up on ingredients for the next round of blog desserts.

Majorly stocking up.

Apart from the one box of Blueberry Morning cereal, my cart looked like I was out shopping by myself for the first time ever and had no idea that Oreos, ice cream, marshmallow fluff, and Fruity Pebbles were not considered part of an “essential” food group.

I’m still a little fuzzy on why they don’t fit in the food pyramid, but whatever. 🙄 (I kid, I kid.)

Anyway, back to the point of this conversation…

Can I just take a second and talk about how grateful I am for self-checkouts? Let me tell you…

But seriously, whoever you are, you have my eternal gratitude. E-T-E-R-N-A-L.

If it weren’t for those things, the cashier would have most definitely had questions, most of which revolving around why, at my age, I had no concept of nutrition.

Those little checkouts saved my dignity. 🙌🏻

Those Fruity Pebbles were put to good use in these Fruity Pebble Baked Vanilla Donuts.

Now, growing up, the sweetest cereal we ever had was Blueberry Morning (which, clearly, is still one of my favorites). We didn’t eat Fruity Pebbles or Fruit Loops much (or at all), and the first time I had Lucky Charms (in college might I add), I discovered I wasn’t missing all that much.

But, these rainbow inspired cereals are f-a-n-a-s-t-i-c on some donuts. Plus, how cute are these donuts for St. Patrick’s Day??? They’re totally the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

In general, I’m not a huge St. Patty’s Day person, mainly because I don’t love any holiday that involves pinching people who forget to wear green (me, always).

I mean, I wouldn’t turn these down, well, ever, but I would A-Okay with these served up on Saint Patrick’s Day (with a side of these rainbow Fruity Pebble Baked Vanilla Donuts and maybe a tall glass of milk or foamy homemade latte).

Fruity Pebble Baked Vanilla Donuts Recipe Tips & Tricks:

– The first thing about this baked donut recipe is that they’re cereal and milk donuts! Meaning, not only are they topped with Fruity Pebble cereal, they’re made with Fruity Pebble cereal milk.

– Fruity Pebbles are soaked in milk for 20-30 minutes, then the cereal is drained and the extra sweet milk is used in the baked donut batter. However, there is one key thing here when it comes to this cereal milk. Technically, the recipe only needs 1/2 cup of milk (plus 2-3 more Tbsp for the glaze), but, you will need to soak the cereal with 1 cup milk, because the cereal will soak up quite a bit of the milk.

– Baked Donuts cook quickly, so you do want to keep an eye on them, otherwise they can over bake easily. As soon as the donuts have puffed and ‘spring’ back when touched, they’re done.

– Lastly, you want to grease the donut pan generously with baking spray, otherwise it can be pretty difficult to pop them out of the tin.

These Fruity Pebble Baked Vanilla Donuts (aka, cereal milk donuts) are made with sweet cereal milk, baked in the oven, and dunked in a cereal milk glaze. When topped with Fruity Pebbles, these yummy baked vanilla donuts make such a festive dessert or breakfast treat! Plus, these baked rainbow donuts are the perfect St. Patrick’s Day breakfast (or St. Patrick’s Day dessert)!

50 minPrep Time

12 minCook Time

1 hr, 2 Total Time

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Ingredients

Cereal Milk

1 cup milk

1/2 cup Fruity Pebbles

Fruity Pebble Baked Vanilla Donuts

1 1/4 cups all purpose flour

3/4 cups sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1/4 tsp salt

1 egg

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 Tbsp vegetable or canola oil

Cereal Milk Vanilla Glaze

1 1/4 cup powdered sugar

2-3 Tbsp cereal milk

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Topping

Fruity Pebbles

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and grease a donut pan well with baking spray.